Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the afflicted, because Jehovah was his refuge.

In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

I have set Jehovah continually before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the paths of the violent man.

I have called upon thee, for thou answerest me, O God. Incline thine ear unto me, hear my speech.

They have now encompassed us in our steps; their eyes have they set, bowing down to the earth.

From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children.

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

Thou didst enlarge my steps under me, and mine ankles have not wavered.

Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be perfect, and I shall be innocent from great transgression.

Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round.

For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

{A Psalm of David.} Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity, and I have confided in Jehovah: I shall not slip.

For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in thy truth.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;

I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked.

Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire of him in his temple.

Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for thou art my strength.

I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah.

For I have heard the slander of many terror on every side when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.

Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.

For in him shall our heart rejoice, because we have confided in his holy name.

Let thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, according as we have hoped in thee.

For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit; without cause they have digged it for my soul.

With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.

Let them not say in their heart, Aha! so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in the way:

I have been young, and now am old, and I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread:

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:

I have published righteousness in the great congregation: behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, thou knowest.

I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me.

As for me, I said, Jehovah, be gracious unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude.

{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

The willing-hearted of the peoples have gathered together, with the people of the God of Abraham. For unto God belong the shields of the earth: he is greatly exalted.

As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God doth establish it for ever. Selah.

We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, in the midst of thy temple.

Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest.

Behold, thou wilt have truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.

{To the chief Musician. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? they call not upon God.

For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Swallow them up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified himself against me then would I have hidden myself from him;

In God have I put my confidence: I will not fear; what can man do unto me?

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.

But thou, Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt have all the nations in derision.

Once hath God spoken, twice have I heard this, that strength belongeth unto God.

To see thy power and thy glory, as I have beheld thee in the sanctuary;

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep.

Iniquities have prevailed against me: our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

Though ye have lain among the sheepfolds, ye shall be as wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with green gold.

They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.

For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

On thee have I been stayed from the womb; from the bowels of my mother thou didst draw me forth: my praise shall be continually of thee.

I have been as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth, and hitherto have I proclaimed thy marvellous works:

Now also, when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have proclaimed thine arm unto this generation, thy might to every one that is to come.

And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

He will have compassion on the poor and needy, and will save the souls of the needy:

For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;

They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:

Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:

For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

Whom have I in the heavens? and there is none upon earth I desire beside thee.

But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, that I may declare all thy works.

They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.

Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.

Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have established its pillars. Selah.

The stout-hearted are made a spoil, they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:

{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth:

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name:

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.

And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.